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Liver Failure Signs

• Ascites
• Bleeding (coagulopathy)
• Clubbing
• Dupuytrens Contracture
• Erythema of Palms
• Flaps
• Gynaecomastia (& testicular atrophy)
• Hepatomegaly (later smaller)
• Itching (Scratch marks)
• Jaundice
• K (vitamin K and other vitamin / nutritional deficiencies)
• Leuconychia
• Mental changes (encephalopathy)
• Naevi (Spider)
• Olfactory (Fetor hepaticus)

Reference: Mostly from : Murray Longmore, Ian Wilkinson, Estee Torok . Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine, 5thEdition. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001, p218 - 221.

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